Example sentences of "[art] [adj] postwar [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Iran , this minority was regarded by the new regime with , if anything , less affection than the old , which had crushed the short-lived postwar Mahabad republic . |
| 2 | On most appliances ( except cookers which were exempt ) the high postwar level of purchase tax ( varying between 50 per cent and 100 per cent for much of this period ) , government restriction of credit facilities , and the limited adoption of modern design and mass production techniques severely limited the market size . |
| 3 | The committee reported in February 1943 in very alarming language that there would be nothing left for the British postwar aircraft industry unless something were done at once . |
| 4 | The first is that the principal postwar task will be the search for peace , an idea which will naturally commend itself both to those who have taken part in the war , and to those who have not . |
| 5 | In the early postwar decades it seemed that governments had some clear options . |
| 6 | But in the early postwar years its import surplus was so large that despite expanded gold exports it was a net drawer on the sterling pool , until it left the pool at the end of 1947 . |
| 7 | In the early postwar years potentially damaging splits within the ranks of the Labour Party in West Ham forced by the war were healed , and the party embarked on a campaign to consolidate power around a unified populist programme of reform . |
| 8 | Data suggest that reductions in infant mortality rates outpaced those at a national level ; it was in the early postwar period that levels in West Ham fell below the national average for the first time . |
| 9 | Thus , a number of professors of English and other influential educationalists were addressing themselves in the altered postwar environment to the issue of the disciplinary revisions required in order to produce " enlightened " bureaucrats , administrators , and teachers . |
| 10 | The war itself had an important influence , both on the development of welfare states and on the rapid postwar advance of science and technology ; but equally significant factors were the growing strength of European socialist parties and the competition and confrontation between the advanced capitalist countries and the communist countries of Eastern Europe . |
| 11 | Though often condemned as naive , his efforts to conciliate Stalin probably owed much to his estimates of American public opinion and of the likely postwar balance of power in Europe , and his desire to win the war as quickly ( and cheaply in terms of Americans lives ) as possible . |
| 12 | In this context , the current postwar peace proposals now being advanced in Western capitals are merely the icing on the global security cake . |
| 13 | After the Second World War the economic prosperity brought by the long postwar boom , and the apparent popularity of the Attlee government 's welfare reforms , allowed the paternalist orientations of Eden , Butler , and Macmillan to flourish , attenuated by the ‘ stops ’ forced by Britain 's ongoing balance-of-payments problem . |
| 14 | Those opening words from Marx 's Capital could have been written about the long postwar boom , the most striking feature of which was a quite breathtaking growth in production . |
| 15 | The mini-boom of 1972–3 proved to be the final and most feverish phase of the long postwar boom . |
| 16 | In 1946 , however , Lean directed his first film without a Coward connection , Great Expectations , and the huge reputation and success this enjoyed coincided with the start of the long postwar decline suffered by Coward — the net result was that the writer 's contribution to the earlier films ' success became progressively marginalized , a state of affairs hardly helped by the increasing influence of French auteurist models of film analysis on British critics . |
| 17 | Agriculture was still a major economic activity in the first postwar decades , and the ability to control the food supply was widely regarded as central to national sovereignty . |
| 18 | When elected in 1981 , the Mitterrand government harked back to the legacy of planning in the first postwar decades ( chapter 18 ) . |
| 19 | Here is a special Times supplement , no less , devoted to the future recovery of Lebanon in which I write of the ships returning to Beirut port , of the re-opening of central banking facilities , the renovations at the temples of Baalbek , the arrival of the first postwar tourists — Swedes , of course — who were bussed off to the ruins of the Palestinian camp of Tel al-Za'atar and then to the Bekaa . |
| 20 | The high hopes for a new morality in Europe espoused by the Resistance movements , and which had included European union as a top priority , seemed to be dashed by the outbreak of the Cold War and the failure of the first postwar governments to include integration on their policy agendas . |
| 21 | The BEA engineers , in consultation with the boiler-makers , initially concentrated on alternative options for improving boiler reliability , and they had serious doubts about the manufacturers ' capacity to make reliable unit boilers with the higher postwar steam conditions , though gradually these were adopted after 1952 . |
| 22 | There was some allowance made for this indirectly by assuming rather conservative lives for the inherited assets , and by the early 1950s , more of the higher postwar investment costs were also entering into the historic cost depreciation charges . |
| 23 | The bulk supply capacity charges to Area Boards rose 64 per cent in the first ten years of nationalisation , as the higher postwar investment costs were reflected in the Central Authority 's books ; and running charges were raised by 45 per cent , reflecting the rising cost of coal supplied by the National Coal Board . |
| 24 | Union membership fell rapidly to around half of the immediate postwar level . |
| 25 | This animated spirit , however , was less evident in Labour 's programme as the immediate postwar idealism and optimism began to be replaced by more pragmatic demands . |
| 26 | In the immediate postwar period Germany constituted the single most important drain on the dollar . |
| 27 | In the immediate postwar period the Labour Party , strengthened by more efficient constituency organisation , a new constitution and programme , and a confident trade union movement , was able to mobilise this heightened working-class consciousness among an enlarged electorate . |
| 28 | Overall , gains of the war and the immediate postwar period were not consolidated . |
| 29 | In the immediate postwar period the Labour Party experienced rapid ascent to a position of unchallenged authority which has to the present never been relinquished . |
| 30 | The success of Morrison 's project derived not from the cementing of working-class allegiance to Labour through the unions , but in filling the political vacuum created by the downturn of political and industrial militancy in the immediate postwar period . |